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Books from Prout.Org |
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After Capitalism: Prout's Vision for a New
World When the mad race for profits end – what next? |
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Books from Metafuture.org |
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Questioning the Future: Methods and Tools for Organizational and Societal Transformation Sohail Inayatullah, 243 pages, Tamsui and Taipei, Tamkang University, 2005 This is the second edition of Questioning the Future. It includes new chapters on Aging Futures, Transport Futures, Case studies in Anticipatory Action Learning, Using Macrohistory to Understand the Next 1000 years, Teaching Futures Studies, and much more. How can anticipatory action learning help organizations create desired futures? What are the limits to strategic planning and scenario planning? How can causal layered analysis unveil the future and create more effective public policy? How can the study of grand patterns of social change help in understanding the future? These and other questions on the nature of futures studies, future-oriented policy making, organizational and societal transformation are explored in this book. |
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The Causal Layered Analysis (CLA) Reader:
Theory and Case Studies of an Integrative and Transformative Methodology. Sohail Inayatullah, Taipai, Taiwan, Tamkang University Press, December 2004, 575 pages. Causal Layered Analysis, first developed by Jim Dator's student, Inayatullah, is described by Dator as "the first major new futures theory and method since Delphi, almost 40 years ago… a very sophisticated way to categorize different views of and concerns about futures, and then to use them to help groups think about futures far more effectively." |
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Neohumanist Educational Futures:
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Understanding Sarkar: The Indian Episteme,
Macrohistory and Transformative Knowledge. ohail
Inayatullah, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, January 2002. Inayatullah provides an extensive analysis of P. R. Sarkar (1921-1990), a controversial Indian philosopher, guru and activist. "On one level we can boldly state that Sarkar's theory is more creative, inclusive and holistic than other attempts by macro-thinkers throughout history. Within the Indian context, along with Gandhi, he stands out as the premiere thinker of this last century, if not the past few hundred years." The notion of opposites is central to his metaphysics, and his rationality is grounded in a universal humanism, or Neohumanism, that has as its goal a consciousness personally considered as blissful, beyond pleasure and pain. To Sarkar, modernity is the irrational, and the rational leads to the spiritual – the maximization of individual and collective "happiness". To create a new culture, a new map of knowledge, is required, that frames self, society, other, nature and the transcendental. |
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Macrohistory and Macrohistorians: Perspectives on Individual, Social and Civilizational Change. Johan Galtung and Sohail Inayatullah, Westport, Connecticut, London, Praeger, 1997. While sensitive to empiricist and postmodern debates on the problematic nature of history, Galtung and Inayatullah avoid being trapped by these positions and instead take us deep into the theories and visions of some of humanity's `macrohistorians' - twenty of its most fascinating and penetrating thinkers. Through an analysis of the theories of macrohistory of such luminaries as Ssu-Ma Ch'ien, St. Augustine, Ibn Khaldun, Giambatista Vico, Adam Smith, G.W.F. Hegel, Auguste Comte, Karl Marx, Herbert Spencer, Vilfredo Pareto, Max Weber, Rudolf Steiner, Oswald Spengler, Teilhard de Chardin, Pitirim Sorokin, Arnold Toynbee, Antonio Gramsci, Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar, and Riane Eisler, authors/editors Johan Galtung and Sohail Inayatullah articulate a new theory of macrohistory, of grand social change. |
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Transcending Boundaries: |
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Situating Sarkar |
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Books by Dr. Ravi Batra |
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The New Golden Age: The Coming Revolution
against Political Corruption and Economic Chaos. Dr. Ravi Batra,
Palgrave Macmillan (January 9, 2007) |
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Greenspan's Fraud: How Two Decades of
His Policies Have Undermined the Global Economy . Dr. Ravi Batra,
Palgrave Macmillan (April 14, 2005) |
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| The Downfall of Capitalism and Communism: A New
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| The Great Depression of 1990, US$20 |
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| Surviving The Great Depression of 1990, US$20 |
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| Common Sense Macroeconomics (Hardcover) |
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| Muslim Civilization and the Crisis in Iran (Paperback) |
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Books by Dhanjoo Ghista |
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Socio-Economic Democracy and the World Government Collective Capitalism, Depovertization, Human Rights, Template for Sustainable Peace, Dhanjoo N Ghista (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) (Aug 2004). ISBN 978-981-238-509-3 / 981-238-509-6 This book is novel and innovative, offering guidelines for the advancement of developing countries, in the context of a neo-humanistic global economic-political order, involving the establishment of autonomously governed functionally sustainable communities (FSCs), and promoting collective capitalism, partyless socio-economic democracy and people-centered governance at the grass-roots level. This book can serve as a valuable teaching and research resource for a multi-stage road-map towards a world government system, for the unification of all the communities of the world into one global cooperative. The combined system of socio-economic democracy (involving knowledgeable and conscientious governance executives elected by and directly representing the various functional sectors of FSCs) and World Government will help transform the current undignified north-south socio-economic order into a democratic and equitable globalisation order, towards achieving sustainable peace. |
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Books by Susmit Kumar |
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The Modernization of Islam and the Creation of a
Multipolar World Order Susmit Kumar, BookSurge Publishing (January 24, 2008) Modernization of Islam is a provocative analysis of the present global Islamic militancy, based on the author’s 1995 article published in Global Times (Copenhagen, Denmark). Dr. Kumar writes engagingly and with easy authority on the causes of Islamic fundamentalism, the collapse of American economy, and demonstrates the excellent prospects of Prout in the later part of the book. This comprehensive work succeeds in placing the idea of Prout in a temporary political framework underscoring an upcoming basic shift in values. |
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Books by Futuresevocative.com |
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Futures Thinking for Social Foresight Richard A. Slaughter and Marcus Bussey This publication provides teachers and students with a practical overview of futures studies. It also acts as a source book for teachers and others looking for activities and material that will help to develop futures literacy in their students. The long-term goal is that of creating social foresight. To these ends it offers a tapestry of sections that weave patterns via ideas and practical action. There are five main sections: 1. Mapping Futures Studies – Key concepts 2. Context and Applications 3. Futures Concepts and Related Techniques 4. Methods 5. Futures Thinking for Social Foresight In addition to these practical and user-friendly sections, there are a number of ‘reflections’ or short pieces that invite deeper consideration. In addition there are numerous diagrams and figures, many of which have been produced especially for this publication. |
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Books by Garda Ghiista |
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Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar: Beacon of Hope for Suffering Humanity [Paperback] The book constitutes a brief introduction to the economic paradigm called PROUT, an acronym for Progressive Utilization Theory, as well as a brief introduction to its founder, Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar (1921-1990). PROUT is considered by the author to be a solution to 80 percent of human suffering, as that suffering is caused primariliy by faulty economic structures wherein there is economic centralization, i.e., where economic power rests in the hands of a few wealthy elite, be they corporate CEOs or party bureacrats. In contrast, PROUT advocates for economic decentralization, where economic power rests with the local people, where each community, village and town controls its own local economy, where maximum emphasis is placed on developing local, ecologically and economically sustainable communities having their own ample water supplies, growing their own agricultural produce, developing their own agri- and agrico-industries, and with resulting revenue building their own educational system, medcal clinics and hospital, and especially low-cost homes for the deeply impoverished human beings. The cooperative business model forms the bedrock of the PROUT paradigm, with the goal being to run all companies as cooperatives and to eventually create a cooperative commonwealth, a vast network of cooperatives interlinking and networking with one another so as to create something akin to utopia on earth, with people working in their own cooperatively owned banks and schools, living in their own cooperative housing, growing their own cooperatively owned agricultural produce and developing more and more cooperatively managed agrico-industries. With cooperatives as the bedrock, PROUT becomes a win-win situation. The solutions to the present economic chaos around the world are simple. The book presents those solutions in straightforward, easy to grasp language, and is addressed to all those people who comprise 'suffering humanity' so that they can learn of this new economic alternative which can become the panacea for the poor - the alternative called PROUT. The book also presents the remarkable - nay astounding - personality of the man who founded the PROUT paradigm - Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar. |
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Wife Abuse: Breaking It Down and Breaking Out [Paperback] In 2001 four women were murdered daily in the United States by their spouses. Nearly a decade later there has been a sharp rise in family violence, with women as the primary target. It is evidenced by more than double the calls to hotlines, hospital emergency rooms and crisis shelters overflowing with victims. Walk-ins are up 240 percent in 2009 compared to 2008, while the number of women and children staying in shelters has increased by more than 70 percent. Invariably, when poverty rises, domestic violence and specifically wife abuse also rises. Even in so-called civilized nations such as the United States, millions of wives are beaten and raped by their spouses. Hardly discussed is the psychological torture meted out to women around the world by narcissistic husbands. To get free of the trap of wife abuse, we need to break it down, analyze it and confront it, so as to understand that it begins in the mind - first of the perpetrator, then of the victim. We can pass laws, but how do we change minds? How do we liberate minds from the insidious spread of emotional and psychological abuse that ends in physical abuse? While the number of women suffering physical abuse is in the tens of millions, those suffering mental torture at the hands of men number more than one hundred million. With the rise of fundamentalism in an era of a new Great Depression and growing fascism, this is not a minor social issue. How long will you continue to tolerate it? When will you face the endless vivisection of women's minds and bodies? When will you accept your responsibility to reclaim your humanity by ending their agony once and for all? |
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The Gujarat Genocide: A Case Study in
Fundamentalist Cleansing Garda Ghiista In February, 2002, Hindu extreme right-wing religious organizations, under the umbrella of the Sangh Parivar, organized and carried out a genocidal ethnic cleansing of Muslims in the state of Gujarat, in western India. Between 2,000 and 5,000 Muslims were slaughtered, and more than 150,000 rendered homeless and destitute. Human rights investigators, despite having earlier visited Kosovo and Afghanistan, were completely unprepared for the horrors they found in Gujarat. To date, the victims have seen no justice - particularly economic justice - and the perpetrators continue to boast of Gujarat as a laboratory of their plans for the rest of India. With the rise of Jewish and Islamic fundamentalism in the Middle East and Christian fundamentalism in the US, the Gujarat genocide looms large in a scenario of global fundamentalist wars. It is a story that reverberates in every corner of the globe where the wolves of religious fundamentalism howl at the gates of power. How are we to face this juggernaut of religious fascism, presently manifest in all major world religions? For all those who cherish human freedom from dogma and hatred, this book is not merely a case study in communalist cleansing, but a Neo-humanistic spark of liberation from the cycle of hatred. In His last discourse on this earth, Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar asked of humanity the following questions: "How can this problem be solved? How can we check these belligerent parties from implementing their outdated ideas, which may cause the physical disintegration of the country? What should be done? What should be our short term and the long-term policy? The approach should be both physical and psychic. Will simple economic theory do or is something more required? Education is a long-term program. What should be done immediately in the physical and psychic realms?" |
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Books by Prout.org | Metafuture | Ravi Batra | Dhanjoo Ghiista | Susmit Kumar | Futuresevocative | Gerda Ghiista